Filter



(No Model.)

A. MOGUTOHEON.

FILTER.

No. 460,984. Patented Oct. 13. 1891.

. JWJM WitzveaisQs? EtUH/ifll UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALEXANDER MCCUTCI-IEON, OE EMPORIA, KANSAS.

FILTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 460,984, dated October13, 1891.

Application filed Jun 17,1889- Serial No. 314,660. (No model.)

T0 aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALEXANDER McCUTcH- EON, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Emporia, in the county of Lyon and State of Kansas,have invented a new and useful Cistern-Filter, of which the following isa specification.

My invention relates to improvements in a water-filter for cisterns; andthe objects are, first, a complete filter; second, to afford completefacilities for the separation of all impure or foreign substances, and,third, to e11- able one to easily dispose of all impure substances.

Figure 1 represents the entire filter; Fig. 2, the ground plan of it,and Fig. 3 a transverse section of it.

A represents the sides of the box; B, its ends; 0, its bottom; D, thelid of the box; E, the water-pipe from rcof to filter; F, the pipe fromfilter to cistern; G, the brick tile; H, cock to clean filter; I, theoverflow-pipe; K, the galvanized-iron frame; L, the cement joints; M,the space between the bottom and the galvanized frame.

To obtain these results, the wooden box A is made two and a half feethigh, four feetlong, and two feet wide, and its entire inside is linedwith galvanized iron. The galvanized iron frame K is placed in the boxone inch above the bottom and supported at the sides by bracketsattached to the sides of the box, thereby allowing the water in M topass through the pipe F to the cistern. The water after being conveyedto the box passes through the tile G. The tile is supported by the frameK and cemented, as represented at I4.

To cleanse the filter, open the lid D and stop cock H, and impuritiescan easily be removed by washing the tile.

Having fully described my invention, what I desire to claim and secureby Letters Patent 1s A cistern-filter having a galvanized-iron liningand a galvanized-iron frame secured therein, so as to leave a space orinterval between the bottom of the filter and the frame, in combinationwith the brick tiling having cemented joints and supported upon the saidframe, substantially as shown and described, and for the purpose setforth.

ALEXANDER MCCUTGHEON.

Witnesses:

J. BURNETT, R. W. JEREMY.

